Davar

The saying goes that yesterday’s newspaper is only good for wrapping today’s fish. That adage notwithstanding, Prof. Yaron Tsur has rescued a…

Quite incredibly, representatives of Western democracies on UNESCO’s executive delivered a self-destructive blow to their own heritage when demanding…

EVER SINCE EHUD OLMERT came under a cloud after the Second Lebanon War in 2006, Israel has been in the throes of a profound leadership crisis. “Our…

Dennis Shifrin, 83From Liverpool to Kibbutz Kfar Hanassi, 1948Dennis Shifrin, born in 1927 in Liverpool, was meant to be a doctor. He had already…

The latest Egyptian blockbuster movie, Cousins (Welad Ela’am), ostensibly set in Tel Aviv (actually filmed in far-off Cape Town), unabashedly…

The inclusion of women in the army roiled the state in its early years, and continues to remain controversial within the religious community. The IDF…

Lonely, vulnerable, affection-craving Israel always yearned for friends. It always also liked to kid itself that it has friends. Hence, at a ceremony…

Truth is often an unwelcome guest. Truth can be unpopular. Truth can disconcert. Truth can be bad for business. Truth can be counterproductive for…

Hillary is hopping mad about Israeli “insults” (no less). Barack Obama’s vice president, Joe Biden (some of whose best friends are Zionists), has…

So who says you can’t accurately predict the future? admittedly, clairvoyance isn’t realistic in all circumstances, but in some instances not to…

Who says we’re not winning the war for the world’s hearts and minds? Even Arabs seem swayed by the argument that the oldest ties to this land are the…

Israel’s left-wing elite, cliquey opinion-makers, self-serving trend-setters and bon-ton groupies glory in posturing as anti-establishment…

This week an exhibition dedicated to the life and work of poet Natan Alterman opened at the Eretz Israel Museum in Ramat Aviv. The exhibition, which…

Terrorist arms smuggler Mahmoud al-Mabhouh’s son, Abdel-Rauf, stood teary-eyed before TV interviewers and lavished praise on his deceased father. He…

An exhibition dedicated to the life and work of poet Natan Alterman opens at the Eretz Israel Museum in Ramat Aviv on Tuesday. The event marks the…

Which right-wing extremist do you suppose said the following?“From here in Beit El to the people of Beit El and to all the citizens of the State of…

Let me admit straight away that I have nosympathy for Sara Netanyahu. Just as the Victorians believed thatchildren should be seen and not heard, the…

We've tried everything - from serious advocacy to provocative pictures of sexy sabras in bikinis. With every newspaper on the face of the earth…

On September 25 the Cameri Theater presents a tribute to the Mohars, father and son, both among Israel's best known lyricists. Yichiel Mohar…

LINKS BETWEEN Jerusalem and Rome span a bridge of centuries, and it is no secret that Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is extremely well…